Word: timbered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...former Governor and the publisher of 21 newspapers, is getting political mileage out of Ullman's past support of the tax. Smith is also making an issue of high unemployment (up to 34.6% this past summer in Harney County) in the district, which is heavily dependent on the timber industry. Smith already has $420,000 in his campaign chest and hopes to raise $330,000 more with the help of conservative businessmen's groups. With Ullman likely to spend $550,000, the hotly contested House race could be one of the most costly in the nation this year...
...chief financial officer of Boise Cascade Paper Co., is shaking up Bendix, which last year ranked 88th on the Fortune 500 list with sales of $3.8 billion and profits of $163 million. Last week he put up for sale the company's $435 million timber operations as well as $300 million of stock in Asarco, which mines copper and other metals. He wants Bendix to concentrate more on high technology and electronics and less on natural resources...
...from their posts or jailed, with the stiffest penalties going to those who tried to blame underlings. In Zhejiang province, one commune party secretary named Ji Xinquan got five years in jail for having brought trumped-up court charges against two commune members who had exposed him for stealing timber...
...their second evacuation, and the volcano's continuing assaults were beginning to fray tempers. Said Otis Bouchard, a gas station operator in Castlerock: "I'll tell you one thing. I'm getting damn tired of this mountain." Tom Nelson, a supervisor at a devastated timber camp, echoed that frustration with an understandable, if implausible suggestion: "Why don't they just take a couple of jets and bomb the mountain...
With the latest eruption, the estimated loss to crops, timber and property rose to nearly $1.5 billion. The cost of the cleanup is staggering. Mud dumped into the Cowlitz and Columbia rivers must be dredged out. Roads and bridges will have to be rebuilt and sewage and drain systems unplugged. In Washington State alone, 370,000 people have been left temporarily jobless. Perhaps one-tenth may be out of work for a year. A still incalculable long-term effect may be a rash of respiratory and lung ailments from continued inhalation...